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TUKF TURK CONGRESS RELIEF CASES Subsequent to the meeting of the Turf Con ¬ gress egress last Wednesday the Committee on Relief to which various applications were referred took action that is thus detailed in the Cincin Cinching ¬ nati Nat Enquirer EnquirerThe Enquirer The Committee on Relief of the Turf Con ¬ gress egress composed of Judge Rees Alec Labold Labeled Judge Tarlton Carlton and Ed Hopper reinstated the filly Mirth and she is now eligible to start on Congress tracks Mirth is owned by Bud Meehan Methane wellknown welkin to western turf followers Last year he bought Mirth from Ed Corrigan and took her to Fort Erie to race She had not been registered and under the Jockey Club rules Meehan Methane was compelled to register and change her name to Sister Alice The changing of the name barred her from starting on Turf Congress tracks The case was discussed by the Board of Appeals who sent it back to the Congress The latter resent it to the Commit ¬ tee on Relief and the decision was that Mirth will be permitted to start and must be entered as Sister Alice formerly Mirth The decision is a just one as the changing of the name was not done for the purpose of fraud hut was done by order of the Jockey Club ClubThe Clutched The Committee of Relief also acted upon the other cases that had been referred to it The request of Mrs Casper Lischer Fischer that the horse Vengeance be reinstated was not granted Vengeance was used as a ringer at Detroit under the name of Blucher Mrs Lischer Fischer claimed that her husband who has since died was not implicated in the job but inasmuch as ha had leased the horse to the parties by whom he was used for ringing purposes the com ¬ mittee mite held that ho had been equally guilty with the jobbers and accordingly as stated refused to reinstate the horse horseA horse A peculiar case that came up for considera consider ¬ tion ion was the claim of E S Gardner Son against the Washington Park Jockey Club The Gardners Garners entered their mare White Frost in a race at tht that recent big Chicago meeting for which an entrance fee was charged Only four horses entered and as some of them were scratchedout scratched the race was declared off and a new i ace made up and substituted The other three horses went into the new race but White Frost did not The Gardners Garners demanded back the money they had paid as entrance fee but Secretary Howard refused to return it on the ground that the club had not declared the race off but the owners by scratching out and that White Frost could have gone into the new race The committee held that the Washington Park Club could not force an owner to enter a race and ordered that association to refund to Gard Guard ¬ ner near Son the entrance fee in question questionJockey question Jockey C Clay who was to all intents and purposes ruled off at the recent St Louis meet ¬ ing King had in an application for a removal of his disabilities The committee did not waste much time over it but simply referred it back to the St Louis Jockey Club officials As Judge Murphy and his associates were convinced at the time they took action in the case of Clay that they had caught that young man whose pecul specula ¬ iar liar exhibition on Sir Ebony in a race here last spring is still fresh in memory with the goods on him it is reasonable to suppose that he will have some trouble in getting up again againThe against The application for reinstatement of T H Cooke who was ruled off at Frisco for fraud in a claiming race was lef clef erred to the Commit ¬ tee of Appeals that may bo appointed by Presi Paresis ¬ dent Montgomery
